What's in this drink?
Dec. 4th, 2005 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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customers_suck that the wintertime classic Baby, It's Cold Outside is almost a script for date rape. The female (in most versions, evidently there are recordings that reverse the roles) is trying to leave, and the male vocalist won't let her. Indeed, he keeps pushing drinks on her!
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customers_suck that the wintertime classic Baby, It's Cold Outside is almost a script for date rape. The female (in most versions, evidently there are recordings that reverse the roles) is trying to leave, and the male vocalist won't let her. Indeed, he keeps pushing drinks on her!Judge for yourself
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Date: 5 Dec 2005 16:51 (UTC)The female singing the "male" role was Roberta Carter-Harrison (http://www.thegate.ca/interviews/wild-straw2.jpg) of the Wild Strawberries. Look at the picture at the other end of that link and you'll understand when they threw back to the DJ he paused for a second then said in awe "I'm feeling all warm, and not in a Christmas-ey sort of way".